[Shermy]

Richard Rakoski and then-fiancee Theresa
spend quality time together just before their marriage
and Richard’s deployment to Afghanistan. Married just
eight months, Theresa was killed in the Rhode Island
nightclub fire. Gazette file photo

[dead]

Ugh.

[speedy]

Almost too much just to read it. Thanks for posting, but heartbreaking.

[JulieRNR21]

So very sad......so many young lives gone......may God help their families as they mourn.

I know someone whose grandson, Jim was killed in the fire. He ran a radio station at his MA college and had gone there to interview the band. He did the interview before the show and was going to head home....then the band's manager gave him & a friend some free passes to the show. They said they could stand right in front of the stage. His friend got out a broken window but Jim didn't.

IMHO it was criminal to use pyrotechics in that club when the ceiling & walls were not made of fire-proof material.

[Catspaw]

OMG, just OMG.

[livius]

This is so tragic. I am literally crying as I write this.

Prayers for Richard, he'll really need them. And for Theresa (because God can do all things and the present, past and future are His), that her death was as painless as possible.

[baseballmom]

Oh how awful. God bless this family, and all the others who lost their loved ones.

This is almost too much to bear.